Word: guards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard University security guard committed suicide last week, leaving the University's police department in mourning...
...first interest-rate cut in three years. Wall Street had seen it coming, and in New York the markets yawned. But Greenspan wasn't done running. He cut rates again on Thursday without waiting for the next Fed meeting, a dramatic move that caught Wall Street off guard. It was almost unprecedented in Greenspan's term as helmsman of the U.S. economy. If the Fed has a big red panic button, this was it: Clearly Father Greenback had seen something that couldn't wait for November 15. But what...
...outrageously funny fiction. The protagonist of Mark Leyner's latest novel, The Tetherballs of Bougainville, is a 13-year-old boy named "Mark Leyner" who has won a $250,000 per-year fellowship for a screenplay he hasn't yet written; his father, convicted of murdering a mall guard with a cuisinart, has been placed on "Discretionary Execution" by the State of New Jersey, meaning that he can be killed wherever and whenever the State feels like...
...Hunter will be on immunosuppressants for the rest of his life. In the first year alone, that will cost him about $1,500 a month. The likelihood that, as Shotgun Shane Sawyer, he will ever again wrestle is virtually nil. As he heals physically, he must be on guard for the intense feelings of anger, even depression, that typically besiege transplant patients. And he should make peace with his managed-care provider as soon as possible. For someone with a "pre-existing" medical condition like Hunter's, the odds of switching insurers are probably less than the odds...
Abdullah is not without foreign policy experience. Since 1962 he has headed the National Guard, the country's 60,000-strong force of fighters that has relied on American advisers since 1975. Although the Prince had initial reservations in 1990 when the Bush Administration asked to deploy 500,000 troops in the kingdom during the Gulf War, he shows no inclination to kick out the 5,000 who still remain on Saudi soil...